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number of American species as well as those of the Old World. Subsequent and more 

 careful cxamiuation has shown that the butterflies of these areas are generically quite distinct, 

 the peculiarity in neuration of the wings being sufficient to easily separate them. The Old 

 AVorld species are thus grouped under Hiibner's genus Catopsilia, and are found in Western, 

 Southern, and Eastern Africa, Madagascar and the African islands, continental India, the 

 Malay Peninsula, throughout the Malayan Archipelago, and also in Australia and New 

 Zealand." {Distant, I. c.) 



Catopsilia crocale. 



Papilio crocale, Cramer, Pap. Esot. i. pi. Iv. figs. C, D (1779). 

 Pajnlio jugurtha, Cramer, op. cit. ii. pi. clxxxvii. figs. E, F (1779). 



Catopsilia crocale, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. i. p. 122, pi. xlviii. figs. 1, \a, b (1881) ; Distant, 

 Rhop. Malay, p. 296, pi. xxv. figs. 11 ^,\2 ? (1885). 



" Male. Wings above very pale greenish white ; anterior wings with the costal and outer margins 

 — broadest at apex and not reaching the outer angle — dark fuscous ; the basal third of 

 wing and costal area to a little beyond end of cell sulphur- yellow ; posterior wings with 

 the inner half — concave externally — sulphur-yellow. Wings beneath pale stramineous, 

 with an ochraceous tinge; anterior wings with the lower half — beneath cell and extending to 

 outer margin — pale greenish white. Eody above with the pronotum dark and thickly covered 

 with long pale greenish hairs, the abdomen pale ochraceous, eyes castaneous, body beneath 

 with legs more or less concolorous with wings. 



" Female. Wings above greenish white or pale sulphureous, both wings with the basal areas more 

 or less suti'used with darker sulphureous or pale ochraceou-i as in male. Anterior wings with 

 the costal and outer margins broadly and irregularly dark friscous, broadest at apex, where 

 there is a more or less distinct subapical fascia enclosing some pale apical sjiots ; a dark 

 fuscous spot at end of cell sometimes connected with the dark costal margin. Posterior wings 

 above with the outer margin broadly and irregularly dark fuscous, sometimes having some 

 faint and obscure pale fuscous submarginal markings. Wings beneath as in male, but darker, 

 with one small discocellular spot on anterior wings and two on posterior wings. 



"Expanse J r'2-08 millim , $ 7U-78 millim." {Distant, I. c.) 



I liavc one male specimen from Kinkian*^, Central China, where it was 

 captured in June. It does not differ in any respect from North-west Hima- 

 layan examples in my collection. 



The larva, which is said to feed on various species of Cassia, is, together 

 with the pupa, figured in the ' Catalogue of the Lepidoptcrous Insects in the 

 Indian Museum,' by Ilorsficld and Moore. 



This species is common in most parts of India, and has been recorded from 

 linrmah, Ceyh)n, Malay Peninsula, Philippine Islands, Celebes, Hong-Kong, 

 and Australia. 



